What’s happening?
The rage continues today in advance of Ipsa’s expected recommendation that MPs should get a 11 per cent pay rise to take their pay to £74,000 in the next Parliament. This follows a consultation paper Ipsa released in July, with five key recommendations:
- Increasing MPs’ basic pay, and then linking their salaries to average earnings
- Overhauling the pensions scheme
- Discontinuing resettlement payments
- Further restrictions to expenses
- Improved communication to constituents on what MPs do
Why shouldn’t they get a raise?
Public sector pay has been frozen for several years, and while the economy is in a state of cautious optimism, the public will think MPs are scratching their own backs. As the Daily Mirror said in a rambunctious splash today, it comes across as a troubling ‘one rule for them, one rule for the rest of us’ situation.
What do MPs think about getting more money?
It’s been a mixed reaction.
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